As the Pythons would say, “Now for something completely different” (at least from my last blog). I did read in the news that John Lennon’s hand written lyrics with corrections to “A Day in the Life” were auctioned to an anonymous bidder from the US for an astounding $1.2 million! Obviously a big Beatles fan [...]
Read MoreI READ THE NEWS TODAY…..OH BOY!
June 28, 2010commentThe Superman comics I enjoyed in my youth had this very weird place that the “man of steel” used to visit; a cube shaped planet called Bizarro World (also called htrae or “earth” backwards) where everything good is bad and vise versa. Bizarros used to say that they “hated beauty” and “loved ugliness.” In that [...]
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MY TOP JUKE BOX HEROES
June 4, 2010commentLong before there were iPods, boom boxes, multi-speaker car stereos or hi-fi consoles, if people wanted to hear great records on a great system, they would have to go
their local diners or malt shops (okay, malt shops were even before my time) to listen to them on juke boxes. Like most baby boomers, I listened [...]
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Is It Time To Free All Music?
May 28, 2010commentThe business model that has worked so well since the beginning of the music industry is almost broken; the “cash cow” was always for labels to charge as much as the market would bear for albums and CD’s. Artists would tour when they had new product to promote and they would supplement tour costs through [...]
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ATTENTION BP, GOLDMAN SACHS, ET ALL! ALL WE WANT IS THE TRUTH!
May 20, 20101 commentThese stories dominated the news in just the past few weeks…..UCLA student gets abducted, but wait; she turns up at a police station and we find out that not only was she not abducted, but she hadn’t been a student a UCLA for the past two years. Apparently, her parents were planning a graduation party [...]
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JEFF BECK AND VINYL RECORDS – IN MY LIFE
April 20, 2010commentI got a preview of Jeff Beck’s new band when I watched him rehearse for his tribute to Les Paul brilliant performance of “How High the Moon” at this year’s Grammy Awards. But nothing could prepare me for the mind-blowing concert I attended this week in Los Angeles when Jeff pretty much performed the new [...]
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WHAT’S EVERYONE SO AFRAID OF?
April 3, 20101 commentWhenever he saw someone acting in a strange way, a friend of mine would remark, “It takes all kind of people to make a world.” That phrase jumped into my head this week when I read the story about the Michigan Militia group called Hutaree who were arrested by the FBI for planning to kill [...]
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THE DOG HAS NINE LIVES!
March 25, 2010comment(Note: I am forgoing my usual marketing rants, ramblings, musings or whatever you would like to call them for this one blog to tell a dog story. If you are not an animal lover, you may want to skip this one).
A few months ago, the big controversy in Southern California was not about healthcare reform [...]
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AND THE OSCAR GOES TO….THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THIS YEAR’S MOVIES
March 11, 2010commentMaybe it was a last minute attempt to derail The Hurt Locker’s chances of winning the Academy Award, but just days before the Oscars it was announced that the makers of the film were being sued by an Army Bomb Disposal Expert who claimed screenwriter Mark Boal had based the story on his life. He [...]
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CHARLIE SHEEN - THE LATEST IN THE MEDIA FUELED SCANDALS
February 25, 2010commentIn the past year or so, it seems like the media is crawling over itself to uncover the latest celebrity/politico scandals. From Mark Sanford to John Edwards to David Letterman to Tiger Woods to Charlie Sheen and everyone in between, there seems to be no quenching of the publics thirst for humiliating stories. Back in [...]
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